Bunnies! Themed Storytime

Opening song: Good Morning/ Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)   
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger 
Literacy: The Golden Egg Book by Margaret Wise Brown (Skip this if you think you might run long or lose their attention)
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: If You're Hoppy by April Pulley Sayre
New song/movement break: If You're Happy and You Know It
Literacy: Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Interactive Book: In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming (We all got up and copied the movements and sounds of the creatures in the book) 
Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Closing Movement: Hokey Pokey 
Post storytime activity:
Cotton Ball Bunnies- I gave the kids multi-colored cotton balls, glue sticks, construction paper and crayons. They drew and/or glued cotton balls on for bunnies. It was fun and easy.

Use your imagination: That's totally a carrot!

Bunny-Carrot Die Cut Collage
Every once in a  while I take advantage of our Ellison machines. I used Ellison Rabbit #2.

TheRabbit/Bunny one looks a bit demented. And, instead of the carrot die, I used the Christmas Lights because there's more space on those. I gave a selection of pastel color dies, the die-cut negatives, tissue paper and glue sticks with pastel construction paper. That was easy and fun,too!